The Lincolns

Library of Congress

The coffins of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln await reburial in the rebuilt Lincoln Monument in Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery in 1901. Lincoln died in 1865, several hours after being shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president.

The coffins of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln await reburial in the rebuilt Lincoln Monument in Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery in 1901. Lincoln died in 1865, several hours after being shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president. (Library of Congress)

The coffins of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln await reburial in the rebuilt Lincoln Monument in Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery in 1901. Lincoln died in 1865, several hours after being shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president.